denfromoakvillemilton
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1) Sheppard is not being built nowNo, the Elginton LRT tunnel was the worst plan at the time, it would have taken $2 billion and buried it in the ground to build a tunnel to a location where there is already a Subway and a GO train line, and only save a few minutes in travel time compared to the surface alignment, which there is plenty of room on the surface for. And the vast majority of the increase in ridership was existing riders who are already on the Bloor Danforth line. It also would have cost us the Finch and Sheppard LRT's.
The DRL north of Danforth is justified on its own without diverting riders from Danforth to Eglinton and forcing them to get on sooner.
2) It could use the SRT alignment.
3) Of course the DRL is justified, but I would like it to take a huge burden off the Yonge Line.
Eglinton should have been a subway from Pearson to Kennedy in the original TC plans.